Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 78
Again she made the holy sign in the air, between herself and the dead man; her lips trembled, her tongue moved, and the name which she in her ride through the forest had so often heard spoken, rose to her lips, and she uttered the words, "Jesus Christ."
Who acts: recollection, lips, tongue · What happens: make, tremble, move, speak, rise, utter · To what, where: holy sign, air, name, lips, words, forest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (recollection, lips, tongue), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sign | det |
| 5 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sign | amod |
| 6 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 herself | punct |
| 11 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 herself | case |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 made | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 man | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 herself | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 trembled | punct |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lips | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 trembled | nsubj |
| 20 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 moved | punct |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 23 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 moved | nsubj |
| 24 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 trembled | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 spoken | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 spoken | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 name | det |
| 28 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 had | obj |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 had | nsubj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 ride | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 ride | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 she | nmod |
| 34 | through | through | ADP | _ | 36 forest | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 forest | det |
| 36 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 ride | nmod |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 spoken | aux |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 often | advmod |
| 39 | often | often | ADV | _ | 40 heard | advmod |
| 40 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 spoken | aux:pass |
| 41 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 made | parataxis |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 rose | punct |
| 43 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 lips | case |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 lips | nmod:poss |
| 46 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 rose | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 uttered | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 uttered | cc |
| 49 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 uttered | nsubj |
| 50 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 words | det |
| 52 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 uttered | obj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 Christ | punct |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 56 Christ | punct |
| 55 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 Christ | compound |
| 56 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 uttered | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
| 58 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | recollection | the holy sign | the air | again | between recollection | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product | |
| 2 | tremble | past | recollection's lips | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | move | past | recollection's tongue | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the name | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | rise | past | recollection not said here | recollection's lips | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lip=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | utter speech: other | past | recollection | the words | Jesus Christ obl | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||
| 7 | ride | recollection | the forest | nom ride «act transitive»: poss=agent through=place |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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